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THE ENDOWMENTS OR FUNDS NECESSARY TO THE SUPPORT OF THE COLLEGE. 



Nature and the surrounding circumstances, and tlae more immediate 

 "wants of our State having led us to select agriculture and mining, and 

 the sciences connected with and necessary for a complete knowledge of 

 them in all their departments, as the leading and governing objects in 

 the establishment of an Industrial College for California, it must not 

 therefore be inferred that we disregard any other calling or occupation, 

 or would leave out of our plan of organization the necessary' provision 

 for giving them their proper share of attention. 



On the contrary, a complete system of industrial education, such as we 

 should aim finally, and as we can command the means to establish, should 

 embrace the facilities for teaching all that is necessary to know or all 

 that can be known in regard to the whole range of industrial operations 

 of civilized life. 



It should embrace the entire range of human knowledge, as applied 

 to human industry in the most advanced position of civilized society. 

 It should be prepared to keep pace with the most advanced scope of 

 human thought. 



It should embrace within its plan the ability and facilities, not only to 

 teach the art of doing all that man, as the representative of the human 

 race in his most educated position, can do, but it should also possess 

 the ability and the facilities for teaching the reasons why, as compre- 

 hended and explained in the entire range of the natural and physical 

 sciences upon which all the operations of civilized life are based. With 

 a plan of such magnitude as to embrace the entire range of the physical 

 and natural laws and sciences before ns, we should take up the the con- 

 sideration of necessary endowments or funds for the supjjort of an 

 Industrial College in California. 



While we are fully and painfully cognizant of the foct that we cannot 

 hope to commence with all these plans and facilities, or to put them all in 

 operation for a number of years to come, still we should not fail to keep 

 the magnitude of the undertaking before us, and work with a determi- 

 nation finaJhj to reach that elevated standard. 



With such an exalted and thorough character for an Industrial College, 

 it is evident that the endowments necessary for its support cannot be 

 less than are required for a first class literary institution. In fact, the 

 necessary experimental apparatus and materials for practically^ teaching 

 the sciences, will render the expenses of such a college greater than 

 those of a literary character, with an equal number of students and pro- 

 fessors. In order that this branch of the subject may be considered 

 with a just idea of its prospective magnitude, we insert for examination 

 the following table from a report upon a plan for the organization of 

 Colleges for Agrieulture and the Mechanic Arts, addressed to the Board 

 of Trustees of the Agricultural College of Pennsylvania, by the late Dr. 

 E. Pugh, at that time President of the Faculty" of that institution. This 

 rej^ort was made in January, eighteen hundred and sixty-four : 



